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The Blackberry brand is gone forever – Gizchina.com
June 28, 2023What Happened to BlackBerry?. No longer making phones, the… | by Barry Silverstein | ILLUMINATION-Curated | Me dium
June 28, 2023Interview with Bob Young
June 20, 2023http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_with_bob_young/ QT:{{”
CM: In January 1998 I attended a talk you gave to the Toronto Linux user group where you noted how you hoped Red Hat would become the Heinz ketchup of Linux distributions. What did you mean by that? BY: If you give away your product it is hard to claim a lot of IP or product differentiation. In the same way that anyone can make ketchup out of freely available ingredients (tomatoes, vinegar, salt and spices) without bending a copyright rule, anyone can build a Linux distribution (Linux kernel, drivers, utilities, and applications (Apache, DNS, Postgres, etc)). So both products are what are defined in business as “commodity” products.
Heinz has 60% of the ketchup business because they have built a brand synonymous with quality and consistency. Red Hat is doing very well by this standard.
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RHELvolution: A brief history of Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases from early days to RHEL 5
June 20, 2023DNA test company 23andMe now fueling medical research
June 19, 2023Why Brand Building Is Important
June 18, 2023What Bed Bath & Beyond, Toys ‘R’ Us and RadioShack have in common | CNN Business
June 17, 2023QT:{{”
“That model was exciting and novel. If you liked that category, it was like a kid walking into the candy store,” said Z. John Zhang, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. “The concept has become passé.”
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demise of category killers – only HD & Lowes are left
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/business/bed-bath-beyond-toys-r-us-category-killer-retail/index.html